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By J. Douglas Holladay Occasionally, when speaking to business students, I ask an unsettling question about their parents in the workplace. Has the light gone out? I purposely keep the question vague and direct, yet they know exactly what I […]

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The Freedom of PerspectivePerspective is everything. It is perhaps the most important ability to cultivate since life assaults us intensely and regularly, dragging us down into the details that can be discouraging. Thus, we must discover unique ways to find emotional space to recapture the bigger picture despite the press of

About a week before Christmas I went into our local Rite Aid in McLean, Virginia. As you might imagine, the place was packed with shoppers frantic to buy things and exit as quickly as possible. The checkout line was long and people were‘testy’, lots of impatient frustrated shoppers anxious to ge

Enjoy the JourneyGood morning!
Decades back, when many of us boomers went off to college, the purpose for that four year experience seemed two-fold. First, get ‘credentialed’ by securing an academic degree from a good university. This was paramount. The other aim, while not always celebrated or articula

A Matter of ReputationBy J. Douglas Holladay
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." mused humorist Mark Twain upon learning of his premature obituary in the New York Journal. On another occasion, a decade later, the New York Times declared him lost at sea yachting from Virginia to New York. Again untrue, T